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Portrait with Keys
Author | : Ivan Vladislavic |
Publsiher | : Penguin Random House South Africa |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2011-10-27 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781415203194 |
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This is a book about Johannesburg and one man’s place in it: a provocative, teasing, revealing, analytical and poetic text on the city and the life rooted in its concrete streets. A high-water mark in Ivan Vladislavić’s writing, Portrait with Keys is a sprawling yet comprehensive portrait of his Joburg. His gaze roams freely across the decades, but the focus falls on the eve of the millennium. Neither a novel in any conventional sense nor a collection of short stories, this chain of lyrical texts brings together memoir, history, snapshots, meditations, asides on arts and – not least – observations on that essential urban accessory, the Gorilla steering lock. Home, habit, change, memory, mortality, friendship, ghosts, gardens, walking, falling, selling and stealing are all part of this unique dossier of city life. Portrait with Keys is an extraordinary work, both an oblique self-portrait of the author and a vivid recovery of where we have been all along.
Portrait with Keys The City of Johannesburg Unlocked
Author | : Ivan Vladislavic |
Publsiher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2009-06-01 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9780393071511 |
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“Surely one of the most ingenious love letters—full of violence, fear, humour, and cunning—ever addressed to a city.” —Geoff Dyer This dazzling portrait of Johannesburg is one of the most haunting, poetic pieces of reportage about a metropolis since Suketu Mehta’s Maximum City. Through precisely crafted snapshots, Ivan Vladislavic observes the unpredictable, day-today transformation of his embattled city: the homeless using manholes as cupboards, a public statue slowly cannibalized for scrap. Most poignantly he charts the small, devastating changes along the postapartheid streets: walls grow higher, neighborhoods are gated off, the keys multiply. Security—insecurity?—is the growth industry. Vladislavic, described as “one of the most imaginative minds at work in South African literature today” (André Brink), delivers “one of the best things ever written about a great, if schizophrenic, city, and an utterly true picture of the new South Africa” (Christopher Hope).
A World of Strangers
Author | : Nadine Gordimer |
Publsiher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : English fiction |
ISBN | : UCSC:32106002029384 |
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Om venskabet mellem en ung hvid mand og en neger.
Burger s Daughter
Author | : Nadine Gordimer |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2012-03-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781408832943 |
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In this work, Nadine Gordimer unfolds the story of a young woman's slowly evolving identity in the turbulent political environment of present-day South Africa. Her father's death in prison leaves Rosa Burger alone to explore the intricacies of what it actually means to be Burger's daughter.
David Mogo Godhunter
Author | : Suyi Davies Okungbowa |
Publsiher | : Rebellion Publishing Ltd |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2019-07-09 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781786181909 |
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WINNER OF THE 2020 NOMMO AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL LAGOS WILL NOT BE DESTROYED The gods have fallen to earth in their thousands, and chaos reigns. Though broken and leaderless, the city endures. David Mogo, demigod and godhunter, has one task: capture two of the most powerful gods in the city and deliver them to the wizard gangster Lukmon Ajala. No problem, right? ‘A Nigerian Harry Dresden.’ Jacey Bedford, author of Winterwood “Assured and arch, unsettling and thoroughly enjoyable—an auspicious debut from one of the most promising new voices in the growing coterie of African SFF writers.” Peter Rubin, Wired Magazine
A Companion to African Literatures
Author | : Olakunle George |
Publsiher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 2021-03-22 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781119058175 |
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Rediscover the diversity of modern African literatures with this authoritative resource edited by a leader in the field How have African literatures unfolded in their rich diversity in our modern era of decolonization, nationalisms, and extensive transnational movement of peoples? How have African writers engaged urgent questions regarding race, nation, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality? And how do African literary genres interrelate with traditional oral forms or audio-visual and digital media? A Companion to African Literatures addresses these issues and many more. Consisting of essays by distinguished scholars and emerging leaders in the field, this book offers rigorous, deeply engaging discussions of African literatures on the continent and in diaspora. It covers the four main geographical regions (East and Central Africa, North Africa, Southern Africa, and West Africa), presenting ample material to learn from and think with. A Companion To African Literatures is divided into five parts. The first four cover different regions of the continent, while the fifth part considers conceptual issues and newer directions of inquiry. Chapters focus on literatures in European languages officially used in Africa -- English, French, and Portuguese -- as well as homegrown African languages: Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Swahili, and Yoruba. With its lineup of lucid and authoritative analyses, readers will find in A Companion to African Literatures a distinctive, rewarding academic resource. Perfect for undergraduate and graduate students in literary studies programs with an African focus, A Companion to African Literatures will also earn a place in the libraries of teachers, researchers, and professors who wish to strengthen their background in the study of African literatures.
African City Textualities
Author | : Ranka Primorac |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2013-09-13 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781317990321 |
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The stereotype of Africa as a predominantly 'natural' space ignores the existence of vibrant and cosmopolitan urban environments on the continent. Far from merely embodying backwardness and lack, African cities are sites of complex and diverse cultural productions which participate in modernity and its dynamics of global flows and exchanges. This volume merges the concerns of urban, literary and cultural studies by focusing on the flows and exchanges of texts and textual elements. By analysing how texts such as popular and canonical fiction, popular music, self-help pamphlets, graffiti, films, journalistic writing, rumours and urban legends engage with the problems of citizenship, self-organisation and survival, the collection shows that despite all the problems of Africa, its cities continue to engender forward-looking creativity and hope. The texts collected here belong to several different genres themselves, and they are authored by both distinguished and younger scholars, based in and outside of Africa. The volume explores the textualities emerging from the cities of Senegal, Nigeria, Ghana, Uganda, Kenya, Zambia, Zimbabwe and South Africa. Above all, it calls for an end to disabling hierarchical categorisations of both texts and cities. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Postcolonial Writing.
Postcolonial Gateways and Walls
Author | : Daria Tunca,Janet Wilson |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 365 |
Release | : 2016-11-07 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9789004337688 |
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This collection of essays focuses on the evocative figures of the ‘gateway’ and the ‘wall’ – both literal and metaphorical – to reflect on the state of postcolonial studies, a dynamic discipline that may itself be seen as permanently ‘under construction’.